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Re:Teaching CS in the schools by cm2187 on Monday October 08, 2018 @03:57AM (#18165137)
For those who are not allergic to Microsoft, visual studio is a beast but it is quite intuitive, has a UI for everthing, very easy debugging and auto-complete. I don’t think there is anything wrong with using a professional tool for kids if the few features they will use are easy to do in this environment. Of course I am less convinced any of the languages in VS is a beginner’s language (apart perhaps from VB but it is going away).
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Re:Teaching CS in the schools by rskar on Monday October 08, 2018 @09:48AM (#18167374)
>apart perhaps from VB but it is going away

Even presuming it's gone zombie, it'll be 30+ years before it might scatter to the winds...

(And that's presuming that VBA is finally no longer a thing.)

In the meantime, some of these kids might someday make a living at maintaining VB codebases.

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Re:Teaching CS in the schools by cm2187 on Monday October 08, 2018 @10:35AM (#18167803)
True. Though hopefully their first language is a "gateway drug" toward more hardcore stuff!
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